When comparing Relay for reddit vs Joey for Reddit, the Slant community recommends Relay for reddit for most people. In the question“What is the best Reddit app for Android?”Relay for reddit is ranked 2nd while Joey for Reddit is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Relay for reddit is:

A great feature of Relay is the UX for swiping between the post and the reddit comments. It's very fast to go back and forth between the views.

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Easy to flip between content & comments

A great feature of Relay is the UX for swiping between the post and the reddit comments. It's very fast to go back and forth between the views.

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Excellent material design UI

Relay uses screen space efficiently and can be navigated quickly. It is mostly designed for viewing a single subreddit at a time and making that experience as pleasurable as possible, with easy access to a subs from a dropdown menu at the top.

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Tons of features and functionality

With support for multiple accounts, interface themes, and inline picture previews, Relay for reddit offers a large amount of features for any power reddit user.

There are also many unique functionalities that set Relay apart from the competition.

●It has a 'Remove unread' option to swipe away all read threads. This is especially useful when it's a large and busy subreddit with tons and tons of submissions, to the point where it can get overwhelming. This a convenient option for making your reddit-browsing experience a little easier.

●It offers compatability with the Multi-Window feature which is present on Samsung & L.G phones (soon to be present AndroidOS-wide). This greatly enhances multi-tasking.

●It offers an excellent Spoiler tag support and an AMA mode (conspicuously missing from its biggest competitor).

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Allows you to view a parent comment

To keep a better context of the conversation, Relay doesn't hide the parent comment while browsing.

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Animations make for more pleasurable usage

The abundant animations make browsing more enjoyable because it transitions so nicely.

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Fast GIF Loading

GIFs are automatically converted to gfycat format; they therefore load much faster than on other apps.

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Clutter-free and well thought-out UI

The moment the user opens Relay for reddit and begins exploring all of its ins and outs, it becomes quite clear how wonderfully designed this app is. There is excellent UX for redditors who prefer discussions and news, rather than pictures, videos, and gifs.

● You can alternate between a cards and a lists UI with a compact list view optional.

● A drop-down menu of all your subreddits is present at the top for quick and easy access. If the user is adequately familiarized with the list, he/she can simply swipe on the banner so to quickly switch between subreddits.

●The comment format option is situated right next to the drop-down menu.

It's an all around wonderful application with many Material Design elements employed.

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Easily moderate from the app

Moderators on Reddit are allowed more functions over a normal user on Reddit, which is possible to be used in Pro for Relay. With these features included in the app it's possible to approve comments, check modque, and get specifically labelled moderator messages.

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Easily save battery with night time theme

The available night time theme allows the background to be dark with light colored text, which uses less battery on AMOLED screens.

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Automatically loads optimized images based on screen size

The app will automatically load a lower resolution image that is a closer match to your screen size to save bandwidth, with a button to load the original image if you need more detail.

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Smooth as butter

Opening links, animations, and transitions, as well as scrolling, all work well with no glitches or missed frames. The app feels extremely smooth thanks to the attention to detail in all of its inner workings.

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Fast and fluid

No lag or stutter, smooth as butter.

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Supports TTS

Only client which reads out content to you.

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Has screen lock feature

This is the only app with a screen lock feature.

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Streams all GIFs

No waiting for download of entire GIF. Streams instantly

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Read AMA in magazine style Q/A format

AMAs are available in magazine style Q/A formatting. works for multi author AMAs too.

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See all the ancestors of a comment

You can see not only parent of a comment, but parent's parent and so on of a comment with single tap.

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Ad-free

No ads.

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It has the fastest gif loading speed

This is the faster reddit app, when it comes to loading gif files.

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Reader view

Read web articles without the clutter.

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Can collapse the comment thread from anywhere

You can collapse the comment thread from anywhere inside the comment tree.

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Streams comments

Streams match threads.

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Swipe to close

Swipe to close is available for everything

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Supports live threads

Full support for Reddit live threads.

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Most powerful text editor

One of the few mobile apps that has support for inserting tables, codes, headings.

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Easy to view albums and read image descriptions

It has vertical cards for albums, so swiping for next image and reading description is in same direction.

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You can add upcoming AMAs to your calendar

Upcoming AMAs can be added to calendar, so you never miss an AMA.

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16 million colors for customization

Both primary color and accent color have 16 million options.

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Shows which AMAs are going on

It shows live AMAs going on currently, so you can participate in them.

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Lets you filter posts by flair

You can filter posts from r/science, r/LifeProTips, r/IAmA, r/askscience by flair.